I had this error happen with the Beta of PS CS6. I re-installed the beta and the error came back. Then yesterday I uninstalled the beta and installed the PS CS6 Trial Version and today this error is happening again. Re-installing obviously does not fix this error, any other thoughts?

I completely uninstalled CS5 (I did not have CS4) but I did not uninstall the preferences from CS5. What I will do is go through and disable/uninstall the plugins then one by one re-install and re-launch. Will be a bit time consuming but we will see what happens.

I have updated what I could in the plugins but not all have updates for CS6. I do know the error was happening before Topaz Plugins were installed. Also I installed all of these plugings through the Extension Manager.

When launching the CS6 Extention Manager I saw that I had installed: "Adobe Photoshop CS5 FXG Plugin" - I did not use this in CS5 and won't be in CS6. I disabled the add-on and the error went away. I will have to launch PS a few more time to confirm the error went away but hopfully this is the case.

I'm guessing its from a different version of Adobe Photoshop. It's always difficult when upgrading Adobe software. It usually presents massive problems and delays when trying to update your plugins (which is why most people just copy them across from a different version). The only new feature I'd like to see in CS7 is not to have to mess around with my plugins and backward compatability for them from CS6. Don't think that will ever happen.

1. You absolutely MUST NOT copy or link to plug-ins that were supplied by Adobe with a prior version of Photoshop. Doing so WILL net you problems.

2. You should always check to see whether the manufacturer of the plug-ins you have has released an update or a new version they say is compatible with the new version of Photoshop and use that if at all possible.

3. In a pinch, if there's NO OTHER WAY to get your old plug-ins into your new Photoshop, you need to isolate just the files involved with each plug-in. You can copy them to a separate folder that you set up to hold them and use the Extra Plug-ins Folder setting to point to that. Unfortunately, not all plug-ins can run with just the .8bi or .plugin files copied - some require additional files that their original installers put in the Photoshop installation area. These files can often be found by looking at the file modification dates and correllating those with the date on the plug-in file itself. Once you identify such files, they can be copied to the new Photoshop installation area or possibly another folder that you have put in your PC's PATH. As you can see, this gets complicated in a hurry, and if you're not a computer guru it's going to be easy to get into trouble.